Radical

Talk story about a walking tour of the financial district, led by Bruce Kayton, that examined the area from the anarchist's point of view. Kayton conducts alternative walking tours of the city in loose association with the New York Marxist School. Tells of the nonviolent anti-establishment activities of Kayton, 32, a New York anarchist originally from Long Island. Fifty-odd people joined the tour, which Kayton said would touch on "some very, very radical, revolutionary stuff going on in the city over the centuries." They stopped at the former Standard Oil Building, where Kayton talked about the time Upton Sinclair picketed John D. Rockefeller. They stopped at Trinity Church, which Kayton said was "one of the sleaziest landlords in New York in the nineteenth century." They stopped at McDonald's, which Kayton said was a politically correct eating place, since the widow of its founder, Ray Kroc, has given money to no nukes causes. Kayton concluded the tour by giving a speech about immigration quotas, and unrolling a poster showing the Statue of Liberty as a giant Coke can.

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.